Human interaction with nature

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The unsettling life-size figures are a new, thought provoking art installation in the Scottish woodland in David Marshall Lodge near Loch Lomondare.

Walking ecosystems | Ecologist. "They believe that interacting with natural environments – particularly biodiverse environments – is integral to human health. This is attributed partly to the potential of health-inducing interactions with diverse assemblages of microorganisms in the environment. These microorganisms are thought to have immunoregulatory effects as well as other functional roles in our bodies or our ‘walking ecosystems’."

Scottish artist, Rob Mulholland, places human shaped mirrors in the woods - a creepy effect but very cool.

within grizedale forest, marshmallow laser feast has created a virtual reality art work that lets people view the scenery through the eyes of its animals.

The direct interactions between people and nature are critically important in many ways, with growing attention particularly on their impacts on human health and wellbeing (both positive and negative), on people's attitudes and behaviour towards nature, ...

Brooklyn-based artist duo Icy & Sot were recently in Tbilisi, Georgia where they installed this temporary piece titled “Nature’s Reflection” as part of Art-Villa Garikula. You can follow more of their recent work on Instagram, and also check out their recent book Let Her be Free that features over a decade of stencil work and street installations. More

Polish illustrator, artist, and co-owner of Morski Studio Graficzne Igor Morski creates surreal images imbued with hidden meaning. He graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań, and worked for public broadcasting in the 80s and 90s, before finally pursuing a career in press illustration. Morski opened his own studio in 1995.

Photographer Zander Olsen creates amazing optical illusions by wrapping trees with white linen, lining up the ends of the material with the horizon line

Modern development has resulted in rapid deforestation resulting in climate change. The devastating effects of deforestation impacts all living things.